Tbh, I just was checking the competition in my country for ''internet marketing''. Guess what? The top 3 results didn't hide their links at all.
And 99% of the backlinks were sitewide from their clients 500k+ links that's what they call ''whitehat'' seo....

It's rediculous how some websites have backlinks from totally irrelevant pages/domains. Come on if you have 500 links on a page ranking #1 for swimming pools, don't you think it's suspicious when 95% of the backlinks are from websites that are about pigfarms?

These aren't small companies, some have 500+ employees.
I don't even want to imagine how those russians are doing seo with so many networks like sape etc.

I agree with the content part but what is wrong with not blocking the crawlers? Does it give any benefit except that competitors can find your links?
I think the Google should be feared not your competitors.

I agree with the content part but what is wrong with not blocking the crawlers? Does it give any benefit except that competitors can find your links?
I think the Google should be feared not your competitors.

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Negative SEO and people can report you to google and destroy your whole pbn in less than a month

OP, I totally agree with the content part, yes we have to use unique readable content. As we already spend 1k+ for building the PBN a few bucks for content won't give you big loses. But whats the need for blocking the crawlers??? i think this is not important.

Guys what's the best way of blocking crawlers? robots.txt (is so, does anyone have a list of crawlers) or anything else?

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not looking to block ahrefs only. There's also majestic, moz / ose and a few others and from what i saw, each of them use lots of user agents. Blocking their IP's would probably be the best thing to do (in my opinion) but i guess they must have multiple ips. So i'm looking for a 100% safe solution (if there's any).

and then there's the other question: if you block all crawlers across your pbn, isn't that a clear footprint?

not looking to block ahrefs only. There's also majestic, moz / ose and a few others and from what i saw, each of them use lots of user agents. Blocking their IP's would probably be the best thing to do (in my opinion) but i guess they must have multiple ips. So i'm looking for a 100% safe solution (if there's any).

and then there's the other question: if you block all crawlers across your pbn, isn't that a clear footprint?

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Footprint for whom? If they can't find your PBN sites then they can't see any footprint.
And I don't think Google uses robots.txt to find footprints.

Maybe I'm being paranoid but regarding 'footprints'... If your site was flagged for a manual inspection by G I'm sure their team has access to Ahref, majestic, moz etc. If they were to compare their own link profile of your site to the others I'd imagine it would give them a nice list of your PBN.

Again maybe I'm paranoid, but hey when it comes to SEO (black or white) paranoia is your friend.

Tbh, I just was checking the competition in my country for ''internet marketing''. Guess what? The top 3 results didn't hide their links at all.
And 99% of the backlinks were sitewide from their clients 500k+ links that's what they call ''whitehat'' seo....

It's rediculous how some websites have backlinks from totally irrelevant pages/domains. Come on if you have 500 links on a page ranking #1 for swimming pools, don't you think it's suspicious when 95% of the backlinks are from websites that are about pigfarms?

These aren't small companies, some have 500+ employees.
I don't even want to imagine how those russians are doing seo with so many networks like sape etc.

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Yeah i have seen this myself. My competitor gets thousands of unrelated footer links from 50 sites. How can google rank that site i can't believe.

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